With me it varies a lot. Sometimes I’ll write a blog post about it. Depends though. For the last couple of fiction books I wrote little reviews immediately after I finished them. I think I was trying to articulate “what they were about,” or something. Sometimes I’ll write a post that isn’t exactly about the [...]
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2009 was my first full year of regular and earnest blogging. I’m usually surprised by which posts do poorly and which ones are successful. Sometimes I’m not really happy with something but I hit “Publish” anyways and people love it. Sometimes I put hours of extra work trying to popularize something and it vanishes. Here [...]
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I just reached 5130 words on a blog post… a little to long to still qualify as a “blog post,” methinks. It’s an essay really, but still long enough I should explain. When I’m writing an essay, I often start adding a sentence or a paragraph in the middle or close to the start, and [...]
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Lately I’ve been more inclined towards long-form — both in writing and in reading. I’m back in the rhythm I had in 2007: writing actual essays at a rate of one-per-week. Maybe that’s the last thing people want, but it’s where I perceive a need. It’s also where I’m most likely to add unique value and [...]
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The book project has evolved from the “world-turned-upside-down” concept to a more general, but better-organized, case for blogging — by which I mean any kind of social, citizen-driven media. [Update: Seconds after publishing I realized what a profound understatement that is... I guess I'll just leave it to readers to figure out exactly what it's [...]
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Continued from Insignificant Verbiage. It’s been fun the last few days, taking the position in a running office argument that “irregardless” is a word. I’m well aware that it’s ridiculous. That’s precisely why it’s so much fun. When I hear people complaining in an exaggerated way — e.g. “Ughh, I hhhate when people say that!” — my [...]
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I’m still posting more or less daily at Open/Conceptual, focusing on some special interest stuff there, but I haven’t been doing much for BrianFrank.ca lately. It’ll probably stay this way for a while. Lately I’ve been looking back at where I’ve come from. I actually forgot how non-blog-like my blogging was a little over a [...]
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Part of me wishes I knew about this a couple of weeks ago: it would be fun. But the part of me that is not totally fucking insane (getting smaller and smaller) is glad that I didn’t. I just heard about this via bloggingheads: a bunch of intellectually (and otherwise) ambitious young blogger-types have set out [...]
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What is Good Writing?
by OpenConceptual on 07-02-2009
in commentary
A funny thing happened in the course of my last post: I committed the same error I was complaining about: putting readability before rigor. In an earlier version (this is where the problems began, perhaps: fussing over it too much) I had a lengthy excerpt from Seth Godin’s excellent post. In the process of making my post more [...]
Tagged as: academics, blogging, editing, malcolm gladwell, pandering, pedantry, popularity, precision, richard florida, seth godin, writing
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